Electronic Health Records

spaceHopper

Ireland 'lags behind' on electronic health records

Am I the only one who thinks this is a terrible idea. I've had my personal data leaked in so many places it's not worth the risk to me.

AndrewJRenko

It's terrible that we're so far behind the rest of the world, for sure. It's terrible that rushed doctors and nurses are spending their time fiddling around with handwritten files instead of having the information they need at their fingertips.

Paper records leak too, btw.

spaceHopper

@AndrewJRenko "Paper records leak too, btw." Hasn't happened to me so far (that I know of)

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123441015#Comment_123441015

Have your electronic records leaked so far?

markpb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123441015#Comment_123441015

Ironically, paper records make it very difficult to know if your information has leaked. How would you know if someone made a copy of your file? With electronic records, it’s easier to audit who accessed them (obviously not infallible though).

And wasn’t there a case last year of people finding years of health records inside an abandoned mental health institution?

Edit: backup for that claim - https://www.unexplained.ie/article/862-personal-medical-records-found-abandoned-in-hse-data-breach-saint-conal-psychiatric-hospital/

spaceHopper

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123441493#Comment_123441493

I haven't been informed if my records were leaked in the HSE hack but given they have difficulty finding a chief information security officer. They would need to have a very well-resourced security team so that they aren't going to be short staffed if somebody left and weren't replaced for a few months.

I've had my data leaked by ⇒

1. Fastway, they had an unsecured data base online which was found by Alex Gor, they tried to claim they were the victim of cybercrime, when they were just dumb.
2. Yahoo were hacked for a longtime before they even found it.
3. Car parts web site
4. Paddy power
5. Western Digital
6. LinkedIn
7. Facebook (scraping bug)
8. Twitter (scraping bug)

I'd have expected Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Paddy Power and Western Digital to have had the resources not to get hacked and to protect data. Hence my reluctance to have web accessible e-health.

You also don't know what deal the HSE could do with private companies in the future to mine your data, Google and the NHS made a similar deal.

loyatemu

I seem to recall several news stories about confidential medical files being found dumped in skips etc. Currently medical notes get scanned, emailed between doctors' secretaries, printed out again, carried around between buildings etc. Really inefficient and not particularly secure.

mountai

Wasnt CJH responsible for computerising the Revenue system ? . One of the best things ever , and as memory serves me , it was done in a very short space of time .

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123441015#Comment_123441015

You also don't know if (some of) your paper records have been lost.

Personally, I couldn't give a shite if my medical records got leaked. No-one, and I mean no-one on this planet cares about that rash I had in a strange place in 2007.

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058409782/electronic-health-records

These things are a balance of pros vs cons.

For me the pros vastly out weight the cons.